Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman